The Derrida-Habermas reader/ edited by Lasse Thomassen. - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. - 321 p. ; 25 cm.

Introduction: Between Deconstruction and Rational Reconstruction (Lasse Thomassen);

Part I: Philosophy and Literature;
1 Levelling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature (Jurgen Habermas);
2 Is There a Philosophical Language? (Jacques Derrida);
3 Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy (Richard Rorty);

Part II: Ethics and Politics;
4 An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida (Richard J. Bernstein);
5 Frankfurt Impromtu - Remarks on Derrida and Habermas (Simon Critchley);
6 Performative Powerlessness - A Response to Simon Critchley (Jacques Derrida);
7 How Respond to the Ethical Question (Jurgen Habermas);
8 Democracy and Difference: Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard Derrida (Seyla Benhabib);

Part III: Identity/Difference: Rights, Tolerance and Political Space;
9 Dead Rights, Live Futures: On Habermas's Attempt to Reconcile Constitutionalism and Democracy (Bonnie Honig);
10 'A bizarre, even opaque practice': Habermas on Constitutionalism and Democracy (Lasse Thomassen);
11 Religious Tolerance - The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights (Jurgen Habermas);
12 Hostipitality (Jacques Derrida);
13 Between Deliberation and Deconstruction: The Condition of Post-National Democracy (Martin Morris);

Part IV: Beyond the Nation State: Europe, Cosmopolitanism and International Law;
14 For a Justice to Come: An Interview witj Jacques Derrida (Jacques Derrida and Lieven De Cauter);
15 February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the Heart of Europe (Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida);
16 Between Hope and Terror: Habermas and Derrida Plead for the Im/Possible (Martin Beck Matustik); Afterwords;
17 Honesty of Thought (Jacques Derrida);
18 A Last Farewell: Derrida's Enlightening Impact (Jurgen Habermas);
Bibliography;
Index.

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Political science--Philosophy
Rationalism
Deconstruction

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